Tuskeegee Institute National Historic Site (AL), founded by Booker T. Washington for African American students in 1881, the students built the brick buildings themselves, still an active educational institution with a visitor center housed in the George Washington Carver Museum.

Two National Parks are located north of the Artic Circle Gates of the Artic National Park and Preserve and the Kobuk Valley National Park

One National Park is also home to two tropical rain forests (NationalPark of American Samoa)

Saguaro cacti is found in Saguaro National Monument, AZ

47 thermal springs with year-round temperature of 143 degrees are found in Hot Springs National Park, AR

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site,MA, Olmsted was a conservationist, landscape architect and founder of city planning.

Longfellow National Historic Site, MA, (poet Hnery Wadsworth Longfellow 1837-1882, the house he used while teaching at Harvard is the same house George Washington used as his headquarters during the siege of Boston 1775-1776)

Augustus St. Gaudens, America’s foremost sculptor of the late 19th and early 20th century (Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, NH)

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, NC

Edgar Allen Poe National Historic Site, PA

Manzanar National Historic Site commemorates the WWII internment of Japanese Americans at Manzanar War Relocation Center in the Owens Valley of California.

Teddy Roosevelt has the most sites named for him:

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, NY

Theodore Roosevelt Island, D.C.

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, NY

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND

His head is reproduced with Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore, SD

The statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., is 19 feet tall.

The national park areas remember the struggles that have shaped this nation:

Minute Man National Historical Park, MA, where fighting erupted on April 19, 1775 to start the American Revolution.

Antietem National Battlefield, MD, where General Robert E. Lee’s first invasion of the north ended in 1862

theVietnam Veterans Memorial, DC, where 58,000 were killed or missing from that war

Andersonville National Historic Site, GA, where a Civil War prisoner of war camp commemorates the sacrifices of American POWs in all wars

the USS ARIZONA National Memorial, HI, sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Fort Pulaski National Monument, GA, took 18 years and 25 million bricks to build and only 30 hours of cannon fire to destroy, causing the defending confederate garrison to surrender in 1862.

Brown v Board of Education National Historic Site, KS, 1954 landmark supreme court case to end racial segregation in public schools; Monroe School in Topeka, attended by Linda Brown, who was represented by Thurgood Marshall before the Supreme Court, who later became the first African American to sit on the Supreme Court.

National park areas include:

2,000 miles of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail that stretches from Maine to Georgia.

15,000 historic and prehistoric petroglyphs, Native American andHispanic images carved on rock, stretch for 17 miles near Albuquerque at Petroglyph National Monument, NM.

The Statue of Liberty (NY) was a 152-foot-tall copper gift from the French in1886. Ellis Island, which processed 15 million immigrants to America, opened again in 1990 as the only museum dedicated to the history of immigration.

Women’s Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, NY, is the site of the first women’s rights convention at the Weslyan Methodist Chapel in 1848.

William Howard Taft National Historic Site, OH. Commemorates the only person to serve as President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

40 million years of the history of mammals is preserved in fossils at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, (OR).

The completion of the first transcontinental railroad is celebrated at the Golden Spike National Historic Site, UT, where the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads met.

Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, VA, can accomodate an audience of 6,786 including 3,000 on the lawn.

The “Pig War” of 1859 was one of the events leading up to the final settlement of the Oregon Territory’s boundary San Juan Island National Historical Park, WA.